top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-03-20

Distill: a modern machine learning journal

http://distill.pub/about/

9 years ago

930 upvotes – 105 comments

Beautiful Online SICP

http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/

9 years ago

762 upvotes – 80 comments

The last patent on AC-3 (Dolby Digital) expires at midnight

https://ac3freedomday.org/

9 years ago

578 upvotes – 222 comments

Tears

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/tears/

9 years ago

417 upvotes – 115 comments

SHA-1 Collision Detection on GitHub.com

https://github.com/blog/2338-sha-1-collision-detection-on-github-com

9 years ago

374 upvotes – 90 comments

The Document Which Used to Be Called the MIT Lockpicking Guide (1992)

http://www.blurofinsanity.com/mit/lockpick.html

9 years ago

355 upvotes – 114 comments

Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/19/business/jeff-jones-leaves-uber-ride-sharing-president.html

9 years ago

354 upvotes – 250 comments

I've decided to move on to Distill

http://colah.github.io/posts/2017-03-Distill/

9 years ago

353 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: How to write a recursive descent parser

http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/parsing-expressions.html

9 years ago

347 upvotes – 148 comments

Leslie Lamport: Video course on TLA+

http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/intro.html

9 years ago

328 upvotes – 74 comments

A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise

http://theconversation.com/a-hot-bath-has-benefits-similar-to-exercise-74600

9 years ago

298 upvotes – 226 comments

What makes gambling wrong but insurance right?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38905963

9 years ago

294 upvotes – 255 comments

Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13913228

9 years ago

255 upvotes – 102 comments

DeepMind in “very early stage” talks with National Grid to reduce UK energy use

https://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2017/03/deepmind-national-grid-machine-learning/

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 110 comments

Most Electronics Being Banned on Certain US-Bound Flights

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/some-electronics-to-be-banned-on-some-us-bound-flights

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 450 comments

David Rockefeller has died

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/david-rockefeller-banker-philanthropist-heir-dies-at-101

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 222 comments

Bloaty McBloatface: a size profiler for binaries

http://blog.reverberate.org/2016/11/07/introducing-bloaty-mcbloatface.html

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 43 comments

Hash indexes are faster than btree indexes?

http://amitkapila16.blogspot.com/2017/03/hash-indexes-are-faster-than-btree.html

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 54 comments

Whiteboard problems in pure Lambda Calculus

http://www.jtolds.com/writing/2017/03/whiteboard-problems-in-pure-lambda-calculus/

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 41 comments

The Antidesktop (2002)

http://web.archive.org/web/20021201230839/http://palm.freshmeat.net/articles/view/581/

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 121 comments
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